I don't think so, a factory making robots does not have applications like the self-assembling, remote robots of the above article. The possibilities are far more wide ranging and interesting - like the self-replicating machine project at bath university that I mentioned a while ago (http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab/replicator/ )
- the interesting thing about these things is their size and the fact that people can change the software themselves in their homes and cheaply - not the simple fact that it is just robots building robots in a factory that clearly costs millions of dollars and doesn't have the capacity to evolve. Besides - the robots you are talking about are, and I quote, " assembled partly utilizing automatic assembling systems" not quite the same - with not nearly the scope for progress.